4) Answer the following
a. What are ranches?
b. What is epicenter?
c. What is draught?
d. What is seismology?
e. What is famine?
Answers
A.) A ranch is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to the practice of ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle and sheep most often applies to livestock-raising operations in Mexico, the Western United States and Western Canada, though there are ranches in other areas.
B.) The epicenter, epicentre or epicentrum in seismology is the point on the Earth's surface directly above a hypocenter or focus, the point where an earthquake or an underground explosion originates.
C.) draughts, (used with a singular verb)British. the game of checkers.
D.) Seismology is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other planet-like bodies.
E.) A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, inflation, crop failure, population imbalance, or government policies. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.
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Answer:
a . a large farm, especially in the US or Australia, where cows, horses, sheep, etc. are kept
b . the point on the earth’s surface where the effects of a sudden movement (earthquake) are felt most strongly
c . a game for two players that you play on a black and white board using round black and white pieces
d . the scientific study of movements in the earth’s surface(earthquakes)
e . a lack of food over a long period of time in a large area that can cause the death of many people